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Atlantic, The, June, 2002 by Thomas Mallon
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It's more than a little ironic that Henry Holt and Company, the publisher of American Son: A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr., has asked reviewers to sign a "confidentiality agreement" protecting Richard Blow, the author, from the premature disclosure of anything newsworthy, or at least interesting, in his book.
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By writing it, after all, Blow has decided to disregard the confidentiality agreement he signed while working at Kennedy's magazine, George . The book deal he made after Kennedy's death angered a number of his former colleagues. "They lashed out," Blow recalls at the end of American Son , "accusing me of greed, opportunism, and bad intentions in general." Some were especially angry because Blow, as George 's executive editor, had punished staffers and contributors who talked to the press in the days and weeks after the 1999 plane crash that killed their boss. He now explains that he was ...
